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It could be a Convent school at Mount Morgan, Queensland, ca.1910. Source: nla.gov.au/nla.obj-151073120/view

Mount Morgan is a rural town and locality in the Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. Prior to European migrants settling in the area, the area was part of the Kangulu peoples traditional lands. Mount Morgan was founded as a gold mining town in 1882. Over the years, the Mount Morgan Mine has produced gold, silver and copper. Mount Morgan Central State School opened in 1887 and grew so rapidly that it was separated into two schools on different sites the following year, forming Mount Morgan Boys State School and Mount Morgan Girls and Infants State School. The word 'Central' was added to the name of these two schools from 1911. They were amalgamated back into one school in 1929. Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School opened in 1891 and closed in 1997. Mount Morgan State High School opened on 22 January 1912.[32] It was the first school of its kind to open in Queensland.[15] Maranu State School opened on 24 May 1915. It closed on 1 April 1927.[32] Upper Dee Provisional School opened in 1919. On 11 June 1923, it became Upper Dee State School. It closed circa 1929. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Morgan,_Queensland

The Cape Bedford Mission was the first Christian mission on the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia. It is the oldest surviving mission in northern Queensland. Guugu Yimithirr (also known as Koko Yindjir, Gugu Yimidhirr, Guguyimidjir) is an Australian Aboriginal language of Hope Vale and the Cooktown area. The language region includes the local government area of the Aboriginal Shire of Hope Vale and the Shire of Cook, particularly the localities of Cape Bedford, Battle Camp and sections of the Normanby River and Annan River.[2] George Schwarz arrived in September 1887 and Wilhelm Poland in 1889. These missionaries and their wives helped stabilize the mission and make it more cohesive. The Polands ran a school at Elim, while Schwarz settled with the young men on a new outstation at Hopevale for agricultural and pastoral work. Poland and Schwarz emphasized teaching in the Guugu Yimidhirr language, and soon some of the mission girls were teaching at the school. In 1890, the Queensland government offered a £200 annual subsidy to the mission on condition that lessons be taught in English. This funding stopped in 1893, leaving Schwarz and Poland to teach the students in their choice of language. In 1900, when a government teacher arrived, English instruction resumed. Due to fluctuations in funding, for about the first 15 years of the mission's existence its residents were at least trilingual. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Bedford_Mission

he Indjalandji-Dhidhanu People have lived in the wider Camooweal area since their Dreaming ancestors formed the landscape and imbued it with its natural and cultural features. Contemporary archaeological evidence confirms that Aboriginal people have occupied this area for an extended period—estimated by scientists as many tens of thousands of years—prior to the first contact with Europeans in the early 1860s. Prior to European settlement of the region, the Georgina River and its tributaries and waterholes in the vicinity of Camooweal, including the adjacent park area, were favoured locations for long-term camping, and bases for hunting and gathering activities by Aboriginal groups from throughout the surrounding desert and semi-desert areas. The Georgina River formed part of a major Aboriginal trade route— running north-south across the country—in which the Indjalandji-Dhidhanu people and their tribal neighbours participated. Along this route, materials and resources were exchanged as part of the regional Aboriginal economy, and ceremonies to sustain the society’s socio-political and religious life were conducted. The Indjalandji-Dhidhanu people today continue to observe and uphold their traditional laws and customs. According to their traditional law, Wiliyan-ngurru National Park is associated with and traversed by a number of Dreamings (routes travelled by the ancestral spirits who shaped, and now inhabit, the landscape at key locations). The Dreamings within the park form part of a complex array of sites of significance to the Indjalandji-Dhidhanu people. These sites include the caves and waterholes, a number of burial sites, numerous camping and ceremony sites and many quarry sites for the manufacture of stone tools. Source: parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/wiliyan-ngurru-camooweal-caves...

According to the research, these children were most likely belonging to the Indjalandji-Dhidhanu people who lived in the wider Camooweal area/district since their Dreaming ancestors formed the landscape and enriched it with natural and cultural features.

Hi Vesna verencevic. What year was this taken ? Cos I'm going to ask other people about this picture and will get a different response. One person already said this picture not ever taken in camooweal. And those children are not from indjilandji dhidhanu.😃 Someone said it's a stolen picture and copy as and for indjilandji people. I will probably found this picture in other history. Website and books.

Christine Dunne Christine, The image location and estimated date was identified by the State Library of Queensland, not Vesna. Unfortunately we have over several thousand First Nations photographs that have limited and incorrect information, which is why we are opening them up for clients to view. If you can tell me more information on this and other images, I would greatly appreciate it and add your updates to our One Search library catalogue .